Category: Fossil Fuels

Lauren Downs from Global Energy News writes:  Hi Craig, I have tried many times to contact you regarding your Nomination in the 2016 Oil & Gas Awards without success. The last thing I want to do is become a nuisance, …

We Won’t Be Winning Any Awards from the Petrochemical Industry Read More »

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About a month ago I took this online survey of my attitudes and beliefs so that a piece of artificial intelligence could suggest the country best suited to my tastes should I be forced to expatriate due to a Trump …

Holland Keeping the Tulips and Wind Mills But Getting Rid of Coal-Fired Power Plants. Good Choice. Read More »

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Those of us who were around in the 1960s remember the revelation that smoking causes cancer—how it mounted slowly year after year, until it became irrefutable.  This gradual increase in the evidence was due to the time required to study …

Update on the Safety of Fracking: It’s Not Good News Read More »

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A wide range of scientific studies have shown that fossil fuel extraction, refining and usage causes severe environmental damage, such as ozone depletion, global warming and ocean pollution. Additionally, many of the byproducts of fossil fuel processing, usage and environmental …

From Guest Blogger Anica Oaks: Clean and Green–Four Critical Steps for Moving Away from Fossil Fuels Read More »

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Here’s a wonderful, well-balanced discussion on an extremely important subject: placing a ban on fracking.  As the author correctly states, natural gas is often used to offset coal, which, as he explains, represents double the greenhouse gas emissions per BTU …

Should We Ban Fracking? Read More »

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It comes as no surprise that California has the strictest clean air legislation in the U.S., culminating in our bill “SB 32” that recently passed the state assembly and is not on its way to the senate.  Yet, as one …

Battle Royale Over California’s Clean Air Standards Read More »

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Is there anyone who doesn’t stand in awe of (British political comedian) John Oliver? It’s hard to imagine how a few moments each week could be packed with more hard-hitting truth, all delivered on a sardonic carrier wave that leaves …

Eviscerating the American Petroleum Institute: John Oliver At His Best Read More »

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It certainly will be interesting to see how the stock market responds to the situation in which the oil companies will soon find themselves. There are several aspects of this, none of them good for share-holders (though very good for …

A Few Good Reasons to Short Oil Companies’ Stock Read More »

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As we’ve all seen during this exciting (?) political season, memes can contain factual/true information, but they can just as easily communicate false or misleading ideas.  Here’s one the truth of which is hard to deny. The fossil fuel industry …

Changes in Power Generation Over the Years Read More »

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Our public relations ace Annemarie Osbourne just sent me this brilliant article from the New York Times: How Producing Clean Power Turned Out to Be a Messy Business. This is a terrific piece that offers a great deal of truth of …

The True Gating Factor Limiting the Adoption of Renewable Energy Read More »

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